Matt Baker

Best known for his romance and "good girl" comics, Matt Baker started his career in 1944 working for Fox, Fiction House, and Atlas. He is mostly remembered for his work on the Phantom Lady series and the daily Flamingo comic strip. Baker was the artist on the arguably first “graphic novel,” Arnold Drake’s It Rhymes with Lust. He was one of the industry's first major African American comic book artists. Inducted 2009

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